10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
11:11 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:05 -1000, Warren Wolfe wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
You can buy 10F 15V capacitors in car audio shops. They're about the
size of a beer can (a normal UK/EU 500ml can, not a dinky little US
330ml can).
Gordon
Nico de Jong wrote:
Erm... I doubt this. I saw a 2 farad cap at a surplus place in Lima,
Ohio. It was rated at 12 volts, and looked like a sawed-off oil drum.
I think there's some sort of square-cube thing going on here that makes
ever-increasing values of capacitance ever huger. I wonder how many Farads a car battery helds Nico
If you empty it out and fill it with capacitors, it will hold a few
megafarads at 2 volts.